Stories tagged with: Girl scouts

What combines rockets, archery, and obstacle courses? It's the Scouts.

From 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. Saturday afternoon, current and potential Boy and Girl Scouts attended a Scout About at dillon state park.

"The purpose of the event is to, build up interest in girl scouting and boy scouting and let people know that were around that were very active in the community and its a lot of fun," said Lindsay Collett of the Girl Scouts.

Now is the time to start stocking up on your favorite of the eight flavors as the Girl Scout Cookie Sale is underway. The sale helps the girls develop skills that will support them through life including goal setting, decision making, money management, business ethics and people skills.

"Our mission is to develop girls of courage, confidence and characters to make the world a...

The Girl Scouts took over Dillon State Park for their 2013 Friends and Fun Day.

Girls were able to try their hand at archery while others sampled items from their food catalog. There were different activities going on throughout the park for the community to get involved in.

"We also have these things called swaps where they do little activities for everybody. We also have field day games like egg carry, three legged race, ring toss and then we also have a first aid skill-a-...

The scouts are taking part in a three day leadership journey that uses activities to teach them the skills they need to be successful. The event focuses on working as a team. It began Friday with outdoor team activities.

"I think for the girls it's making friends. They learn the skills. They make new friends. A lot of these girls didn't even know each other when they got here and a lot of them were exchanging numbers...

Two girl scouts are hoping to put a smile on the faces of suffering children.

Paige Stillion and Jasmine Jewell are working on their Girl Scout Silver Award but they aren't simply focused on achieving recognition, they also want to help burn victims. Their goal is to raise funds for burn unit patients and raise awareness for fire safety. They came up with the idea after local girl Payten Newell was badly burned in an accident last June.

The Heart of Muskingum Service Unit gathered at Zanesville High School on Saturday to continue the organization's 100 year anniversary. Service Unit Manager Debbie Poulton said the celebration focused on ways to serve others.

"We have Salvation Army, that we're doing the craft bags for the people there. We have bookmarks and everything for the residents of Cedar Hill. And we have, just, we're trying to give back for 100...

Girl Scouts hit the century-old mark this month and the celebration continues...

Girl Scouts from the River Valley Service Unit recognized the milestone with a birthday tea party Saturday afternoon. Service Unit Co-Manager Joy French said the organization celebrates its birthday like anyone else would.

"They're making friendship knots and they're making paper dolls that are in a traditional uniform. They brought gifts with them to donate as part of the birthday party that...

Seven-year-old Julia Gantzer wanted to do something special for our men and women serving overseas in Afghanistan. Her mother Sarah said Julia asked her girl scout troop to raise enough money for 100 boxes of cookies, but then she had another idea.

"I wanted to talk to the pawn stars," said Julia.

Julia wrote a letter to the television show "Pawn Stars", and the cast agreed to donate $2,000 to the...